ABSTRACT
Alaska Native environmental history is rich with stories of collective activism for environmental justice. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the Indigenous press, Indigenous community networks, and grassroots movements of Indigenous peoples and conservationist allies challenged projects and laws imposed by the colonial US government that threatened the environment and its human and non-human inhabitants. This chapter examines how Native elders, artists, and journalists from the Indigenous-run Tundra Times newspaper all played an essential role in propelling Indigenous solidarity movements to protect land rights, food sovereignty, and the environment. Over time, the relationship between Native activists and non-Native US conservationists evolved to amplify Indigenous environmental issues, shaping contemporary approaches to environmental justice in and beyond Alaska.
